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My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

First of all, welcome to Seibertron and congratulation for your first post.

If you asked this on 4chan's /toy/, you would have been dragged donwn the street to be stoned to death for asking such a question. However, we are on Seibertron and we are civilized.

Thus, allow me to answer in a most eloquent manner to explain the fact that Hasbro will never release a "G1 style" Megatron on American soil ever again:DUH, SHITSTORM CAUSED BY TOY GUNS AND LAWS AND ****!

May I also point out that making an official gun out of bricks will required the stupid but legally obligatory orange cap. The fact that we can ommit to put on the orange cap easely is a hornet nest Hasbro's lawers refuse to touch.

Still, you know what is the beauty of building bricks? YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING! So, why not buy yourself the Kreo Megatron set plus some other Lego/Megablock sets and build your own G1 Megatron? If you have some Lego skills and the money to buy the appropriate bricks and sets, just go nut!

And the new set is a tank anyway, and quite a spiffy one at that! All shiny and silver bits. And Kre-O has it's own continuity, it's mostly a spoof universe...though I feel like it'd be hilarious if characters from one of the other continuities bumbled into the Kreoverse.

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

Kre-O ≠ G1. They tend to homage a little bit of everything.I believe the intent is to make the set interactive with the Kreons. An in-scale vehicle lends itself better to that purpose than a gigantic gun.

Plus, the gun-mode most likely would be hit by regulations/restrictions. Armada Laserbeak (the camcorder one) had to be colored bright orange as opposed to a more G1-esque black and red because of it's abstract "gun mode." No way a building block gun would fly.

My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

Agreed. A pistol alt mode would have been awesome!

Awesome, but impossible.

By "Kim Yura" & "Zimmo81"

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

Agreed. A pistol alt mode would have been awesome!

Awesome, but impossible.

To illustrate, even a completely made-up model of gun has to have these colors:

Orange cap and all. And as mentioned before, Kre-O is not G1, is its own entity.

My question is, why is Megatron a truck? Why didn't they make Megatron a pistol? A lego pistol wouldn't be hit with all the restrictions the G1 Megatron faced...and would be safe for kids to play with since it would obviously not look like a gun.

Agreed. A pistol alt mode would have been awesome!

Awesome, but impossible.

To illustrate, even a completely made-up model of gun has to have these colors:

Orange cap and all. And as mentioned before, Kre-O is not G1, is its own entity.

I just don't know how they'd put an orange cap on bricks unless the barrel was one solid piece.

And actually, that Megatron is based off of a Nerf gun. And that still needs an orange cap.

As I said, aside from that reason, they made him a truck because of this:

It's the same reason Bumblebee is usually a Camaro or a Urbana car resembling it instead of a Volk. Or the fact that Optimus isn't a flat-nose. Or the fact that Sentinel Prime is...here. The movies have influenced Transformers to a great extent. I don't expect to see a full set of G1-reminiscent models (outside of the Classics line and it's successors) anytime soon.

What? *replaces Bot Shots with tap dancing monkey*

By "Kim Yura" & "Zimmo81"

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

What stop criminals for coloring the tip of their guns orange so we think they are toys until it's too late?

! Don't give them the idea!

I don't think it's just a matter of an orange colored tip. It's an orange cap. Over the barrel, with a very small hole through it (or none at all).

By "Kim Yura" & "Zimmo81"

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.